journalism
How reporting is made and why to believe it: sourcing conventions, incentives, and reading across biased accounts.
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Daniel W. Drezner quoted
Political scientist writing Drezner’s World on international relations
Our readingThe culture of the Trump administration guarantees that special envoys will not be constrained.
Their wordsBut the story also reveals why the culture of the Trump administration guarantees that this will not happen: The secretary of state is not managing anything at Foggy Bottom so he can stay close to the president; The deputy secretary of state is an insecure martinet who would never have been placed in such a high position in any competent administration; The special envoys appointed by Trump will either leak to the press or complain to the White House if anyone tries to rein in their activities.
↗Heckuva Job You’re Doing, Marco Rubio!danieldrezner.substack.com
- 12 days earlier
- NS
Nate Silver quoted
Forecaster, founder of FiveThirtyEight
Our readingPolls may be biased in either direction
Their wordsSystematic polling errors are common. Polls might be biased against Republicans again. Or against Democrats.
- 12 days earlier
- EA
Emily Atkin quoted
Climate journalist; founded HEATED in 2019 after reporting…
Their wordsI believe nonprofit funding models are integral to the future of journalism.
- EA
Emily Atkin quoted
Their wordsIt means people still want confrontational, voicey climate reporting. They believe it should exist, and they’re willing to help make sure it does.
- 1 day earlier
- BD
Brad DeLong quoted
Economics professor at the University of California
Their wordsit is not true that modern institutional speech faces "no adversary": we have journalism, litigation, regulators, social media pile-ons, whistleblowers, and o on.
↗CROSSPOST: NICHOLAS GRUEN: Hobbes on Spin & Bullshitbraddelong.substack.com 2nd of 3 in this piece
- 6 days earlier
- JZ
Jeffrey Zeldman quoted
Web designer and writer
Their wordsAlas, few brands jumped at this opportunity, and the destruction of publishing and journalism continues to this day.
↗Remembrance of Websites Pastzeldman.com 1st of 2 in this piece
- 8 days earlier
- EM
Elon Musk quoted
Founded SpaceX in 2002
Their wordsThey never do, because the legacy media IS far left! That is why they view normalcy as the far right.
- 2 days earlier
- SW
Simon Willison quoted
Co-creator of Django and creator of Datasette
Their wordsI’ve written about the people familiar with the matter pattern before—it means Reuters have anonymous insider sources that their reporters (and editors) find credible.
↗OpenAI's rogue agents were caught communicating via public wikissimonwillison.net
- 3 days earlier
- AC
Ajeya Cotra quoted
AI researcher and grantmaker
Their wordsthen that rogue deployment could be sitting there and sort of hitch a ride on the intelligence explosion. So new models are being trained every few weeks um and when a model comes off the presses, the rogue agents could try to bring that model into the swarm.
↗Ajeya Cotra – "This might be the clearest warning shot we ever get"youtube.com 14th of 26 in this recording
- 3 weeks earlier
- PS
Peter Steinberger quoted
Founded PSPDFKit in 2011 and ran it for a decade
Their wordsWe did the the numbers and the numbers are more like 0.3%. We scanned all 67,000. We shipped the we shipped the paper. But you know a correction never travels as far as a scare.
↗Peter Steinberger: "Fun Is Velocity"youtube.com 3rd of 22 in this recording
- 4 weeks earlier
- EA
Emily Atkin quoted
Their wordsclimate coverage is rapidly shrinking-and what remains is increasingly paywalled
- 3 days earlier
- BS
Balaji Srinivasan quoted
Co-founder of Counsyl and of Earn.com
Their wordsThe establishment journalist claims to speak truth to power, but somehow never gets around to investigating themselves or each other.
- 4 weeks earlier
- DH
David Heinemeier Hansson quoted
Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals
Their wordsYou don't have to be Sherlock Holmes to deduce a connection between narrative-driven coverage (and absence of it!) and lower trust
- 10 days earlier
- TF
Tony Fadell quoted
Creator of the iPod and co-creator of the iPhone at Apple
Our readingThe press release should be written before the project starts, not after the product ships.
Their wordsyou should really make the press release before you you before you more or less start the project.
↗Tony Fadell: How to build real taste (and why AI makes it matter more)youtube.com 10th of 23 in this recording
- 4 weeks earlier
- KB
Katarina Batina quoted
Design Director for the Shop app at Shopify
Our readingData itself is objective, but the reading of it is never objective; it is always subjective.
Their wordsKeep in mind data can be twisted. It can have a story behind it. Not intentionally, but like data itself is objective. The reading of it is never objective. It is always subjective.
↗Katarina Batina - Making big bets with designyoutube.com 19th of 20 in this recording
- 6 days earlier
- NC
Nicholas Carr quoted
American journalist and writer on technology
Our readingMore information did not open minds or inform people better; it can mean less understanding
Their wordsWe now know the answer: It was going to widen the gap between the pseudo-environments in which people think and feel and the real environment in which they live and act. It was going to reveal a fundamental paradox of modern communication systems: More information can mean less understanding.
↗The Myth of the Informed Citizennewcartographies.com 1st of 2 in this piece
- 2 months earlier
- SW
swyx quoted
Writer and developer
Their wordsand then as things hit invisible asymptotes those same loud voices who write viral essays have curiously moved on to other things.
- 2 months earlier
- PM
Patrick McKenzie quoted
Software engineer and writer, known online as patio11
Their wordspeople who write professionally about money-including professional advocates for financially vulnerable populations-often misunderstand alternative financial services, largely because those services are designed to serve a social class that professionals themselves do not belong to, rarely interact with directly, and do not habitually ask how they pay rent, utilities, or phone bills.
↗The gift card accountability sinkbitsaboutmoney.com 3rd of 3 in this piece
- 4 days earlier
- ML
Michael Lewis quoted
American author of Liar's Poker, Moneyball
Their wordsIn fact, if most journalists started there, they'd be accused of heography
↗10 Years of Acquired (with Michael Lewis)youtube.com 2nd of 16 in this recording
- ML
Michael Lewis quoted
Our readingAn audience is not buying the subject you cover; it is buying your interest in the subject.
Their wordsThey learn to trust you that if you're interested, they'll be interested. That what in fact what they're buying into is not the subject, but your interest in the subject.
↗10 Years of Acquired (with Michael Lewis)youtube.com 5th of 16 in this recording
- ML
Michael Lewis quoted
Their wordsYou don't call uninformed. You call knowing as much as there is to know and then you start picking the brains of people who might know more and have not said.
↗10 Years of Acquired (with Michael Lewis)youtube.com 8th of 16 in this recording
- ML
Michael Lewis quoted
Their wordsSo this is a filter. Like if I'm talking to you, it takes effort to put it down on the page. I don't record anything that I've filtered it. It's interesting enough to me that it belongs on the page.
↗10 Years of Acquired (with Michael Lewis)youtube.com 10th of 16 in this recording
- ML
Michael Lewis quoted
Their wordsYou are gathering before you make judgments. You're open to learning things. You're trying to be the world's best student. You want people to want to teach you.
↗10 Years of Acquired (with Michael Lewis)youtube.com 12th of 16 in this recording
- 8 days earlier
- SW
swyx quoted
Our readingThe best follow-up questions in an interview push back and challenge what the guest just said.
Their wordsThe highest art of followup is disagreement - challenging what they said, pushing back on it.
- 2 months earlier
- PD
Pavel Durov quoted
Founder of Telegram, and before it of VK
Their wordsThis is something I practice every day. I read some piece of news and I ask myself, "Who benefits from me reading this?" Then you can end up coming to this conclusion that maybe 95% of things we read in the news have been written and published because somebody wanted you to buy some product, support some political cause, fight some war, donate some money.
↗Pavel Durov: Telegram, Freedom, Censorship, Money, Power & Human Nature | Lex Fridman Podcast #482youtube.com 8th of 28 in this recording
- PD
Pavel Durov quoted
Their wordsBecause there's no such thing as an unbiased source of information. When the war in Ukraine started in 2022, I instantly realized Telegram is going to be used to spread propaganda by both sides.
↗Pavel Durov: Telegram, Freedom, Censorship, Money, Power & Human Nature | Lex Fridman Podcast #482youtube.com 21st of 28 in this recording
- 5 weeks earlier
- KC
Kyle Chayka quoted
Staff writer at The New Yorker
Their wordsThe band told me about the pressure of creating content in order to promote their music and the ways in which the audience now has power over how songs sound.
↗How to survive a TikTok hit songkylechayka.substack.com 1st of 2 in this piece
- 3 months earlier
- SP
Sundar Pichai quoted
CEO of Google and Alphabet
Their wordsLook, I think news and journalism will play an important role in the future. We are pretty committed to it, right? So I think making sure that ecosystem, in fact, I think we'll be able to differentiate ourselves as a company over time because of our commitment there.
↗Sundar Pichai: CEO of Google and Alphabet | Lex Fridman Podcast #471youtube.com 10th of 21 in this recording
- 2 weeks earlier
- KS
Keir Starmer quoted
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom since July 2024
Our reading · no longer heldMeans-testing the winter fuel payment is a tough decision that has to be taken, and it should stand.
No longer holdsHowever, I recognise that people are still feeling the pressure of the cost of living crisis, including pensioners, and as the economy improves, we want to make sure that people feel those improvements each day as their lives go forward. That is why we want to ensure that more pensioners are eligible for winter fuel payments as we go forward.
SaidHowever, I recognise that people are still feeling the pressure of the cost of living crisis, including pensioners, and as the economy improves, we want to make sure that people feel those improvements each day as their lives go forward. That is why we want to ensure that more pensioners are eligible for winter fuel payments as we go forward.
- 2 months earlier
- KG
Kapil Gupta quoted
Advisor to executives, athletes and performers on the mind
Their wordsThe pressure to “publish,” for instance, is a poison that permeates the halls of every academic and scientific institution.